Keith’s update: This court document (actually it is two documents) contains the details of what Ed Mango’s case is all about including his plea agreement. Former head of NASA’s Commercial […]
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Posted inSpace & Planetary Science
Maven Leaves Earth
MAVEN Leaves Earth for Mars “Flight of NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft continues to go well following an on-time launch at 1:28 p.m. EST aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket.” […]
Posted inCape Canaveral
Need a Mobile Launch Platform?
NASA Seeks Uses for 3 Mobile Launch Platforms at KSC, Florida Today “Commercial rocket launcher? Museum exhibit? Artificial reef? All are potential uses for three historic mobile launch platforms from […]
Posted inCommercialization
Pad 39 A Competition Continues
Musk, Bezos fight to win lease of iconic NASA launchpad, Orlando Sentinel “Sources on Capitol Hill and within NASA said Blue Origin’s protests forced the space agency to announce a […]
Posted inNews
Will the Air Force use the Orbiter Processing Facilities at KSC?
Air Force X-37B support might be included in KSC renovation, Florida Today “Space Florida on Wednesday advanced plans to renovate two former shuttle hangars that might eventually house a secretive […]
Posted inCommercialization
Long-term Lease for Pad 39A Almost Set
Lease on Kennedy Space Center’s Pad 39 may be near, Bolden says, Florida Today “A long-term lease of a mothballed Kennedy Space Center launch pad may still be near, NASA […]
Posted inCommercialization
Fighting Innovation at Pad 39A
New Uses For Launch Pad 39A: Threatening The Status Quo “While news stories focus (inaccurately) on a contrived rivalry between space billionaires Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk, entrenched interests in […]
Posted inCommercialization
Space Florida Selected to Manage Shuttle Landing Facility
NASA and Space Florida Begin Partnership Discussions, NASA “NASA has selected Space Florida, the aerospace economic development agency for the state of Florida, for negotiations toward a partnership agreement to […]
Posted inCommercialization
Modifying The Modified Mobile Launcher
NASA Awards Contract to Modify Mobile Launcher “NASA has awarded a contract to J.P. Donovan Construction Inc. of Rockledge, Fla., to modify the mobile launcher that will enable the agency’s […]
Posted inCommercialization
NASA Turns Down Space Florida Land Request (Update)
State requests spaceport land near Oak Hill, Daytona Beach News Journal “In a response released last week, NASA said the property in question isn’t “excess,” that it’s still needed as […]